Posted on 03/18/2014 6:47:44 AM PDT by WXRGina
There is a reason that Guinness is brown and tastes like....
Where does Inbev stand in the divide?
The instigator in me found this:
Anheuser-Busch & InBev
Anheuser-Busch-InBev is the leading global brewer and one of the world’s top five consumer products companies. AB InBev manages a portfolio of well over 200 beer brands that includes global flagship brands Budweiser®, Stella Artois® and Beck’s®, fast growing multi-country brands like Leffe® and Hoegaarden®, and strong “local champions” such as Bud Light®, Skol®, Brahma®, Quilmes®, Michelob®, Harbin®, Sedrin®, Klinskoye®, Sibirskaya Korona®, Chernigivske®, and Jupiler®, among others. In 2010, AB InBev realized 36.3 billion US dollar revenue.
June is “officially recognized” by the Gay, Lesbian, Bi-sexual and Trans-gendered community as Gay Month.
AB-InBev is one of the largest sponsors of the celebratory events taking place through the USA during the month of June. A quick glance at provides extensive detail on their support for this behavior.
Through extensive financial support including advertising, philanthropy, sponsorship, promotion and printing, InBev has demonstrated a full and complete support of the GLBT lifestyle as detailed by a few links listed below. (CAUTION LINKS MAY CONTAIN OFFENSIVE MATERIAL).
http://www.gaydays.com/Sponsors/
http://www.capitalpride.org/sponsors
http://www.bostonpride.org/donate/current-supporters/
http://www.lapride.org/pride_sponsors/index.html
I totally agree with you. Murphy’s is head and shoulders above Guinness. Give me a good dry Irish stout any day of the week over a sour Guinness.
“Anybody know of a good substitute for Guinness?”
“I suggested Murphy’s stout yesterday, but someone pointed out the it is a Heineken product.”
After years as a solely local stout, the acquisition of the brewery by Heineken in 1983, with a consequent expansion in distribution and international television advertising, exposed Murphy’s to the international drinking community.
Several years ago I started making a Murphy’s Dry Irish Stout clone. One of my favorite beers.... Guess I’ll make more myself and purchase less. It’s one of the easiest beers to brew....
The beer companies have freedom of association, too. The government cannot force the parade organizers to let gay organizations march, but other people can criticize the parade organizers for that decision. The beer companies can sponsor the parade or not, as they choose. Customers can buy beer from those companies or boycott them, as they choose. Freedom of speech and association goes two ways.
You appear to be missing an important distinction here. The beer companies had long sponsored these parades and always made a nice amount of money in parade-related sales. They would not have chosen to drop their sponsorships under “normal” circumstances. They dropped because of intimidation from the radical homosexual activists, who are notorious for making real trouble for businesses that do not lick their boots with statements of “support.”
If you believe “freedom of association” comes at the end of a fascist pink fist, then I guess you’ll really enjoy the new Amerika.
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I ask freepers... I will be in Dublin for two weeks. Do I take the Guinness brewery tour?
Too much trans fat and it doesn't keep a good head. :)
I’m going to in June.
Get the Dublin pass that way you are paying for multiple tours and not just the Guiness one.
What "intimidation" led the beer companies to drop their sponsorship? Were their trucks bombed? Their executives' families threatened? Those are crimes. Or are you talking about threats of boycotts, which are free speech?
What intimidation? Seriously?
Perhaps you have not been watching in recent years the machinations of the radical homosexual movement, and yes, intimidation is the larger part of it. Maybe you’ve missed their aggressive, even violent behavior. I suppose you may not be aware of the trouble they have made for companies that don’t bow to their wishes.
Many, if not most, of the large companies are now so afraid of drawing the ire of the militant homosexualists, that they cave at the first hint of their displeasure. All it took for Guinness to bow was one infamous homosexual bar threatening to pour Guinness beer from its roof.
If you want to somehow argue that what happened here is a normal part of of “free association” void of homo-radical intimidation, then I guess there’s really nothing I can say to you, because you and I will never agree.
Ah, I get it: the absence of any intimidation is proof of intimidation. That makes perfect sense. Not.
Ah, I get it: the absence of any intimidation is proof of intimidation. That makes perfect sense. Not.
...quite a lame response...I believe the poster indicated that the threat of poor publicity exposure caused the beer companies to capitulate...which is, ipso facto,intimidation, because it employs a mechanism (hostile media and governments)that is not available to the other side...in order to be the laissez-faire utopia you go on about, both sides in the issue would have equal access to the means of communications...this is not the case, as the beer
companies cannot petition some compliant media to aid in getting its message out...
What you call "hostile publicity," I call protected first amendment speech. I see no evidence of any governmental pressure on the beer companies to pull out. And Chick-fil-a seemed to do well enough in the public opinion battle.
You seem to be obtuse, although it may just be that you support the radical homosexual movement, which would not surprise me in the least.
The fact that you are using the "free speech" argument (as if the homo-radicals are not busting their asses to kill others' freedoms) to justify support for an unhealthy, immoral unnatural behavior speaks volumes about you.
I believe the organizers of the parade have the right to exclude gay groups. Do you agree?
I believe gays have the right to peaceably protest that exclusion. Do you agree?
I believe you have the right to applaud that exclusion. Do you agree?
I believe the beer companies have the right to sponsor the parade or not sponsor the parade as they choose. Do you agree?
I believe people have the right to criticize the beer companies' actions, and boycott their beers. Do you agree?
I believe others have the right to applaud the beer companies' actions. Do you agree?
If you don't agree, which of these things should be illegal?
I believe you can truly over-think these things when you have left the reservation.
Where we left the rails is where we crossed the line of common sense, truth, reason and morality to the point that people like you see nothing wrong with using our God-given freedoms to defend Godless behavior—behavior that has rightly been criminal throughout human history, by the way. Freedom does not mean license for “anything goes,” because when that happens, we will be ruled by tyrants. We’re pretty much there now.
Sin is sin, and it always will be. The homosexual radicals are wrong, and they always will be. And, they will always use strong-arm intimidation tactics and the rule of twisted law from evil judges and evil politicians enabled by evil lawyers to force their vile will on the rest of the American people, which is as far from FREEDOM as you can get—not that you care.
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